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Simulating Recovery of Deleted Files in S3 Using Versioning

In this hands-on lab you have been asked to implement an architecture to help accidental or purposeful deletion of important company files stored in Amazon S3. During your time you will: Explore deletion protection options for your Amazon S3 bucket, enable versioning for all files within the S3 bucket, and test deletion and recovery of test files.

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Level
Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 15m
Published
Clock icon Feb 12, 2024

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Create Test Files

    • Invoke the CreateTestFiles Amazon API Gateway API to create test files in the Amazon S3 bucket
    • You should get several files/objects created similar to important_file_###.txt

    You can get the invoke URL in the API Gateway console from the Stages menu of the MyApi resource or the CloudFormation outputs

  2. Challenge

    Delete Objects - Part 1

    • Delete one or more of the important files within the Amazon S3 bucket created for you. The bucket name should start with csaa-ps-.
    • Do not delete all objects

  3. Challenge

    Enable Versioning for Amazon S3 Bucket

    • Enable bucket versioning for the Amazon S3 bucket from within the bucket properties

  4. Challenge

    Delete Objects - Part 2

    • Select and delete another object within the Amazon S3 bucket.

    Make note of the object key/name.

  5. Challenge

    Recover Deleted Object

    • Show the object versions for the Amazon S3 bucket using the toggle button
    • Recover the previously deleted object by permanently deleting the deletion marker for your recently removed object
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